>>84526142That's fair but remember there doesn't need to be a single, obvious cause. Often it's not a big trauma that causes people's lives to go to shit, but a chain of small bad decisions.
Like taking a few more than the recommended dose of the pills the doctor proscribed you after you hurt your back playing football. Just because, you know, it was hurting extra bad that day. And then a few more. And then a few more. And you're not a full-blown junkie at that point, no, you go on for almost a year like that before anyone even notices that you get jittery sometimes, like you're coming off a high, except you don't seem high. You get offered a promotion, a lot more money, but you can't take it because that department involves driving the forklifts and they drug test. You turn it down, and given that you've been slightly off lately people start to get suspicious. Steve says his cousin saw you at the bar in town where everyone knows the pill dealers hang out. Then a lot of money goes missing from petty cash, and that's bad luck, because it wasn't you, but it was in the department you manage so the cops get a subpoena for your financial records and realise you've mortgaged your house to the hilt. They find pills in your car - only a few, your lawyer tells you he can get you off easy if you just say they were left over from the proscription. But you're already fired, over a theft you didn't even commit. And that makes you real bitter, and you're desperate for money now, and you still have your work keys...
And you get away with it, the first time. There's no big fanfare when you become a real criminal. You were expecting, who knows, some thunderclap from above. But they don't even notice until the next stock check at the end of the month, and even then they don't think of you because it's a big company and you were smart enough not to take anything from your old department. It's so easy. Maybe just one more, so you can bring the mortgage out of arrears...
